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Dancing to the rhythm of cultures
Languages

Dancing to the rhythm of cultures

...economic strategy of the political establishment in order to take advantage of the tourist industry. [Image of people in 1850 sitting around in a cafe together.] 'Un cafe cantante' by Jose Alarcon Suarez (1850) As opposed to other traditional dances of Spain, flamenco dancing has no direct links to religious spirituality; it is rather an existential response to being...
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Article 15 mins
Panic buying and how to stop it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic buying and how to stop it

...economic shocks, suggesting that shared norms organised around values are highly relevant to how societies function as they adapt to large crises. Crises can massively disrupt the framework of norms people usually inhabit - things taken for granted can no longer be assumed. This is the context the UK and practically any country is finding itself in now during the COVID-19...
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Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support

...economically and culturally. www.acic.org.uk WALES BAWSO BAWSO is an all-Wales, Welsh Government-Accredited Support Provider, delivering specialist services to people from Black and Ethnic Minority backgrounds who are affected by domestic abuse and other forms of abuse. For all general enquiries, Email: info@bawso.org.uk, or contact the 24-hour helpline: 08007318147....
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Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...economic circumstances and so on, to try and determine why some go on to commit crime, as compared to others who do not. This type of research is called a ‘longitudinal study’, as it follows people over a long period to see if their behaviour changes or develops over time. The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development was a longitudinal study that began in the 1960s...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...economic structures which generate a repertoire of roles, symbols and conventions that individuals take up and identify with. Individual control over work-based identities are structured, patterned and constrained by the pre-existing conditions of work and distribution of economic opportunity. Individuals may have more choice over whether they choose to identify with...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...Economic Forum, 2019). 70 billion ‘livestock’ animals are slaughtered for human food globally each year; around 50 billion of them are chickens (Faunalytics, 2018). Aquatic animals Precise numbers of aquatic animals killed for human consumption are unrecorded, but even low estimates dwarf the figures for the killing of land-dwelling ‘livestock’ animals. 790–2300...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...economic or coercive forms of influence. Kotler et al. (2002) argue that social marketing is often used to influence an audience to change their behaviour for the sake of one or more of the following: improving health – health issues preventing injuries – safety issues protecting the environment – environmental issues contributing to the community –
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...economic and environmental determinants of health. As you have learned, female reproductive health is one example where the social model offers a useful perspective. The biomedical model would consider reproductive health in relation to the body and reproductive roles, whereas the social model starts from the perspective of the social, cultural and economic, as well as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs